[OpenAFS] Best practice: inode or namei fileserver?

[Hartmut Reuter]

Jason Edgecombe wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We are currently running inode-based fileservers on solaris 9.
> 
> I stumbled across the fact that solaris 9 -9/05HW makes logging the
> default on UFS. I know that the AFS finode-based fileserver cannot work
> with a logging filesystem.
> 
> Does the namei filesystem play nice with logging filesystems?

Yes
> 
> Going forward, which format is recommended, inode or namei?

Namei has another advantage: if you salvage a single volume it's not 
necessary to read all inodes, but only those pseudo-inodes (file names)
under the subdirectory belonging to the volume group. This is much faster.

An overhead traversing the AFSIDat-tree to open a file certainly exists, 
but I suppose it is neglectible compared to the advantages.

-Hartmut
> 
> I'm wondering if I should slowly migrate to namei.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
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